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A container is a resource that represents intellectual entities and can also be used to aggregate other resources in a Fedora repository. Containers may container other containers or binaries and their nonRdfSourceDescriptions.

Datastream

See: NonRdfSourceDescriptionWithin the Fedora 4 model a Datastream comprises a binary and a NonRdfSourceDescription. Treat both together as a datastream, and they only ever occur in a pair.

Dissemination

An approach previously available in Fedora 3 that allowed for binding a service to a content model. Note: disseminators, as such, do not exist in Fedora 4.

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A namespace is a container for a set of identifiers (also known as symbols, names). In Fedora 4, resource properties may belong to any namespace providing semantic assertions that support interoperable metadata. Namespaces are restricted to being an empty string or to a URI as defined in section 3 of RFC3986. An example of a namespace would be "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/".

NonRdfSourceDescription (formerly

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the properties of a datastream)

A nonRdfSourceDescription is a resource that describes a binary resource within the Fedora repository. A nonRdfSourceDescription is always accompanied by a binary, and vice versa.

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